Example sentences of "as she [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 1.30am , a 46-year-old was assaulted as she walked alone Hospital Lane and at 3am he attacked a 22-year-old as she walked along a path at Greystone Road . |
| 2 | The eighteen year old was punched as she walked along a path in Campbell Park in Milton Keynes . |
| 3 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 4 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 5 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 6 | ‘ Miss Russell ? ’ she queried as she stretched out a hand to the phone . |
| 7 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
| 8 | A WOMAN who was spotted breastfeeding her baby as she drove along a busy main road was being hunted last night . |
| 9 | She paused and I could hear her brain cells creaking into action as she reached out a hand covered in enough costume jewellery to make a decent knuckle-duster . |
| 10 | But even as she flung out a hand to save herself she was whisked off her feet and pulled into the secure haven of fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 11 | As she swilled out a whisky , she caught the burning , envious eyes of her captive . |
| 12 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
| 13 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 14 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |
| 15 | He stooped to replenish the stove then came to look at what she was doing as she finished off a row . |
| 16 | They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface . |
| 17 | But she almost turned and fled as she came round a corner and found herself face to face with Guido . |
| 18 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 19 | One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in . |
| 20 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 21 | Theresa Stevens , 21 , was beaten , repeatedly stabbed and strangled as she put up a desperate fight to save herself . |
| 22 | But Miss Angus slapped her wrist sharply with a teaspoon , as she picked up a paperback with her other hand and examined it closely . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll find the Doctor , ’ Cheryl said dully , as she picked up a torch . |
| 24 | Lindsey smiled sympathetically as she handed over a prescription . |
| 25 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 26 | ‘ We had a photographer here , once , from a colour supplement , ’ Finn told Melanie one morning as she exclaimed over a fresh assortment of jumping-jacks ( soldiers in red jackets , each sporting a row of meticulously painted medals ) that they were too good for children . |
| 27 | As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked : ‘ Beryl , I doubt it . |
| 28 | In the first incident McConville , of Lurgan Road , Aghagallon , rubbed his hands up and down her sides as she bent over a dishwasher in the kitchen . |